We’re hiring again! Details of the new Financial Secrecy Index 2020 Intern role below, and job information pack to download here. Key facts Application closing date: Monday 30 September 2019Start date: … [Read more...]
Archives for 2019
France gets bullied on digital tax
France and the United States have been at loggerheads over French plans to impose a 3% digital tax on revenues earned on digital services in France, which would hit US multinationals like Google or Facebook. The US had threatened retaliation. Now, it seems US president Donald Trump and French … [Read more...]
Taxing foreign capital as an alternative to tariffs
Michael Pettis, a well known China-watcher and expert on global finance and macroeconomics (who has also apparently been a leading light in Beijing's punk rock scene), has published a new article on Bloomberg entitled 5 Smart Reasons to Tax Foreign Capital. It's a welcome antidote to all those … [Read more...]
Vulnerability and Exposure to Illicit Financial Flows risk in Africa
It is well established that illicit financial flows affect the economies, societies, public finances and governance of African countries - as they do all other countries. A key challenge to addressing illicit financial flows has been the difficulty of identifying the relative importance, in a given … [Read more...]
‘How to tackle tax abuse’ course – Register now
We’re delighted to announce that registration is now open for the "How to tackle tax abuse" course at the Copenhagen Business School. The course is run as part of the COFFERS project (Combating Financial Fraud and Empowering Regulators). The programme runs from 11-13 September 2019. It features … [Read more...]
The Tax Justice Network’s August 2019 Spanish language podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast, agosto 2019
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, free to download and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! En este programa: Mexico, petróleo y … [Read more...]
How financialisation worsens Britain’s regional imbalances: our submission to parliament
Recently the UK Treasury launched an inquiry into regional imbalances in the UK economy. In short, it was asking about the nature of the economic imbalances in the UK, the problems these imbalances may pose, and what remedies might be available. The Tax Justice Network sent the Treasury a … [Read more...]
We trained over 100 tax administration officials to use our Indexes
The Tax Justice Network has been cooperating for years with the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) to train, learn from and share knowledge with tax administrations on tax abuse mechanisms and what can be done to curtail them. At CIAT’s International Taxation Network Meeting in … [Read more...]
Seeking a consultant to design an open data portal
Terms of Reference: Open data portal on risk-based illicit financial flows The Tax Justice Network is seeking qualified consultants to design and build an open data portal to allow interested stakeholders and members of the public to view, analyse, query and export a dataset that we have built on … [Read more...]
Edition 19 of the Tax Justice Network Arabic monthly podcast/radio show, 19# الجباية ببساطة
Welcome to the nineteenth edition of our monthly Arabic podcast/radio show Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة contributing to tax justice public debate around the world. (In Arabic below) Taxes Simply الجباية ببساطة is produced and presented by Walid Ben Rhouma and Osama Diab of the Egyptian … [Read more...]
Edition 6 of the Tax Justice Network’s Francophone podcast/radio show: #6 édition de radio/podcast Francophone par Tax Justice Network
We’re pleased to share the sixth edition of the Tax Justice Network’s new monthly podcast/radio show for francophone Africa by finance journalist Idriss Linge in Cameroon. The podcast is called Impôts et Justice Sociale, ‘tax and social justice.’ It’s available for anyone who wants to listen to it, … [Read more...]
Tax Justice July 2019 Portuguese podcast: Desigualdade de renda, polarização e Tributação
Welcome to our third monthly tax justice podcast/radio show in Portuguese. Bem vindas e bem vindos ao É da sua conta, nosso novo podcast em português, o podcast mensal da Tax Justice Network, Rede de Justiça Fiscal. Veja abaixo os detalhes do programa em português. É da sua conta is … [Read more...]
Tax justice goes mainstream: successes in 2018
The year 2018 was a year of social movements. From women’s rights to climate crisis, 2018 saw urgent issues break into the mainstream and garner great social momentum. Among these waves of social change, tax justice issues similarly broke new grounds into the mainstream. Check out our … [Read more...]
Protecting enablers: attorney-client privilege is just the tip of the iceberg in facilitating illicit financial flows
A recent US case gives timid hope after unlimited attorney-client privilege in relation to tax cheating. But is this enough? Is the real issue being addressed? We’ve paid a lot of attention to “enablers” – that is, the bankers, accountants, lawyers, and others who put together the system of … [Read more...]
Immigration as reparations: the Tax Justice Network July 2019 podcast
In this month’s July 2019 podcast we speak with multiple award winning Suketu Mehta about his new book: This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto on the fastest way to fix global inequalities and injustices. (A UK version of the book will be published in August 2019.) Plus: we discuss … [Read more...]
